For the chairman and chief executive of Murray Energy, an Ohio-based coal company, the reelection of President Obama was no cause for celebration. It was a time for prayer – and layoffs.

Robert E. Murray read a prayer to a group of company staff members on the day after the election, lamenting the direction of the country and asking: “Lord, please forgive me and anyone with me in Murray Energy Corp. for the decisions that we are now forced to make to preserve the very existence of any of the enterprises that you have helped us build.”

On Wednesday, Murray also laid off 54 people at American Coal, one of his subsidiary companies, and 102 at Utah American Energy, blaming a “war on coal” by the administration of President Barack Obama.”

Murray Energy is the country’s largest privately owned coal mining company, with about 3,000 employees producing about 30 million tons of bituminous coal a year, according to its Web site.

12. BINGO!

2. So he's weak?

So it's possible for someone to come in and sucker punch him and grab his business?

I'm not making light of this . .. my husband is a small business owner who has experience tremendous growth these past few years.

When all of these 'CEO Job Creators' started their nonsense - that was his very first reaction . . .

Great bambala! That means that some billionaires are going to be crippled and they'll create 100 millionaires that cannibalize them. <---- This is how he started his restoration line of work for UNESCO. It's also how his HVAC company came to be.

I read this as his business was weak in the first place - and now he's ripe for being picked off by an entrepreneur with pluck.

13. This is A FUD campaign (fear uncertainty doubt) meant to scare all the rest of them

That's how companies have always scared the unions. And it's how they very effectively keep wages down.

Make no mistake, Bain's lessons on tearing down unions is spreading across the country.

Right now this is playing out at American Airlines, they want to scare the pilots into making half as much as pilots at other carriers. And Bain is not surprisingly one of the Bankruptcy "reorganizers".

Not working, and the pilots are about to throw out most union representation as well.